a welfare state and jumped on joe biden as well saying that the middle class has been buried. the running mates are causing some headaches. >>> plus, i have some questions of my own for the candidates. i'm going to ask michael steele and joan walsh to fill in for barack obama. can they answer questions? i'm going to show you what i'm going to be looking for. and then i'll join rachel mad do you for an hour long show for tonight's debate. join us for the full coverage. and then at midnight eastern, i'll be back for the a special late edition of "hardball," a show with lots of results. we'll tell you who won. this is "hardball," live from denver, the first presidential debate. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? if we took the nissan altima and reimagined nearly everything in it? gave it

in the news across the country, on behalf of their candidates as they go cross-country and joe biden and paul ryan face criticism from their opponents for troubles statements caught on tape. senator mark udall is a democrat, his home state of colorado, and malik ka henderson, political reporter, back there at the post. we in the business of journalism are too casual or cavalier about the term gaffe. sometimes somebody says something, they really mean it. it may cause trouble but it's not a gaffe because they believe it. we're going to talk about biden. let's take a look at vice president biden, he talks about republicans are seizing on a line in his remarks yesterday when he describes the difficulties facing the middle class and the current economy. let's take a look at what biden said. >> this is deadly earnest, man. this is deadly earnest. how they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years. how in lord's name can they justify raising their taxes? >> well, that created shortly after joe biden tweuttered thos words, mitt romney

up next time and you're going to see joe biden unleashed, i think, in the next debate. >> that's going to be fun. >> maybe the most interesting of all of them. >> tout that one this week. biden is twice his aim. he's a lot more friendly. he's almost like a big, you know, a big st. bernard. he slopers all over you but he's very personable and he's very hard to dislike. the other guy is a little colder version of humanity. >> this could be one of the best debates of the see son and main one of the best debates across the board. this is a classic -- a very different type of candidate. one is very affable and one is very, you know, a nerdy sort of guy. i think it's going to be fascinating to watch this one, and i think it's going to be important, maybe more important than past vice presidential debates have been in the sense that if ryan does well, i think it's really going to substantially help that momentum that romney has established last week and will be very important and so the stakes are very high on this one. >> you know what? that's another great point. after the 2004 deba

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